ubuntu-x-swat team mailing list archive

[Larry Reid <lcreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Dell with 9.10 is connecting through a wire. There is a wireless
card in the box, but since I've never got to Network Manager to set the
wireless password, I've been using eth0 through a wire.

I will attach two dmesg outputs shortly. The first one is when the Dell
was sitting with the GDM login screen. The second is after attempting a
login and getting to the wallpaper. At that point, I'm looking at the
wallpaper with nothing else (no panels, icons, etc.) and the standard
arrow shaped mouse pointer, which I can move by touching the trackpad.
The caps lock key doesn't seem to change the state of the LED.

Now for some more strange behaviour: I had the Dell at the GDM login
screen, but then had to do some work for a paying customer. When I came
back to the Dell, it had turned off the display (screen saver?). I
couldn't get the display to come back on. However, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
seemed to be restarting X, as I could hear a "thunk" sound shortly after
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

So I thought, "Perhaps it thinks it's supposed to send output to an
external monitor. I plugged the monitor cable into the Dell and the
external monitor didn't light up, but the Dell's built-in screen did!
(Still just the wallpaper with a working mouse pointer.) The "dmesg-
postlogin-2.txt" shows dmesg after that one, and Xorg.0.log-2 is also
after plugging in the external monitor.

Further strange behaviour: While the Dell is sitting with X showing the
wallpaper and mouse pointer, I have an ssh session open from a healthy
machine. If I type in the ssh terminal, nothing happens until I move the
mouse pointer on the Dell. Then whatever I typed appears, along with any
output if I pressed return.

I'm currently running ubuntu-bug on the Dell from the ssh session. It's
rather humorous to see the progress dots not appear until I move the
mouse pointer on the Dell.

I'll upload the files later this evening. Sorry I can't do it right now.

By the way, I'm running version A32 of the BIOS on the Dell. Many people
report problems with Ubuntu on the Inspiron 1100 if you have older
BIOSes.

-- 
No X Video on Built-in Monitor of Dell Inspiron 1100
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412245
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X,
which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu.